Convention Season starts for me this weekend. Going off to Spectrum Fantastic Art Live, in Kansas City, MO. It's an all-fantasy art expo that started last year. It's run by the folks who do the SPECTRUM: Best in Fantastic Art Books. And they have their awards ceremony there. Tons of artists have booths and guest artists do panels and ( Read more... )

Got a free Professional Badge for WonderCon at the Anaheim Convention Center (across the street from Disneyland), so I thought I'd check it out for the first time.


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One more day to submits stuff to SPECTRUM (the book). --I've done my share of supporting Spectrum through submissions the first 8 or so years, so I haven't thought about submitting stuff in YEARS... but it's still a very cool thing ( Read more... )

Yeah, I'm trying to catch up, which is just impossible for me... Anyway, back in MAY, the folks at the Spectrum: Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art series of art books held its first event in Kansas City, MO: Spectrum Fantastic Art Live ( Read more... )

Diana Stein and I will be sharing a booth again this year in the Fantasy Illustrator section of the Exhibit Hall.

I look forward to all the excitement of the Comic Con with not a little dread! But, hey, it's FUN. Insane, but fun.

Here's the last few photos from IMC ( Read more... )

For the IMC (Illustration Master Class), there are always cool choices for the assignment. This year there was the High Fantasy: "Tristan and Isolde", the SF: "Old Man's War by Scalzi, movie tie-ins: "Tarzan" and "The Hunger Games", and a YA short story about a boy and a ghost ( Read more... )

Between lectures and painting time with instructors going around, and the meals at the Amherst College dining hall (which are great meals, by the way), there are impromptu demos. Here, a student asks Iain McCaig (most known for doing the concept art for Darth Maul, etc.) for help with a demon face and Iain starts painting...

using watercolors--

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Well, I'm back from the IMC (Illustration Master Class). I've been bad about posting the past few years, so I'll try and be better this time around. As usual, I have not broken out the paints to finish up my painting... but that doesn't mean I won't. I can definitely see where I'm going with it. I just need to set up a painting space--something ( Read more... )

Still at the IMC. I chose the "Tristan and Isolde" assignment. Going for the Romance!

( A couple of comments and photos HERE. )